In researching this episode, I spoke with an old timer who had worked forever at a company

that does advertising blimps.

We spoke of the many times their blimps with their brightly lighted displays on the side

had been responsible for UFO reports.

Today we're going to find out what connection there might be to that and to a very famous

UFO case from Illinois in the year 2000, the St. Clair Triangle UFO.

It's coming right up, UnSkeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The St. Clair Triangle UFO.

It was a bitterly cold winter morning on January 5, 2000 in St. Clair County, Illinois.

At just 4 o'clock in the morning, it was black as pitch and more than three hours before

sunrise.

And the streets were correspondingly deserted.

But today we're going to study what is said to have happened over the next 45 minutes

or so, involving at least four police officers from four different towns, speeding down

the highways, chattering on their radios, and pursuing what would become considered by some

to be one of the most elusive UFOs in history.

It's become known as the St. Clair Triangle case, and it's had UFOlogists scratching their

heads ever since.

In all, seven people saw the object, including four police officers, due to the wee hours

not many people other than police officers were up and about.

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